Question

XmlNodeList list = null;
list = xmlResult.SelectNodes("/sitecore
                               /result
                                /item
                                 [scWebsitePath='"+sitecoreContextItemPath+"'
                                  and scTemplateId='"+templateId+"' 
                                  and scDateCreated > '"+publishedFrom+"' 
                                  and scDateCreated < '"+publishedTo+"']");

Above code returns me a list of all “validated” Nodes.
Is it also possible to have xPath check wheter a path ie. “xxx/yyy/zzz/” is part of a Node for example if the given path is “xxx/yyy/zzz/” and i want the items below that path to be returned:

• “xxx/yyy/zzz/abc/def/ghi” <- will be
  valid
• “xxx/yyy/zzz/abc/def/ghi/jkl” <- will
  be valid
• “xxx/yyy/zzz/aaa/aaa/zzz” <- won’t be
  valid

I can access the node Path by doing this:

XmlNode thisScPath = node.SelectSingleNode("scPath");
if (thisScPath == null)
continue;

So i wonder if i can also do something like:

list = xmlResult.SelectNodes("/sitecore
                               /result
                                /item[scWebsitePath='"+sitecoreContextItemPath+"'
                                      and scTemplateId='"+templateId+"'
                                      and scDateCreated > '"+publishedFrom+"'
                                      and scDateCreated < '"+publishedTo+"'
                                      and scPath = '"+scPath+"/*']");

When deleting the invalid Nodes from the list this will save me alot of stress because of bad performance. I can eventually delete the invalid items using a c# string.IndexOf != -1 statement, but I’d like to do this with xPath if possible. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I think you want to check

  and contains(scPath, 'xxx/yyy/zzz/')

or

  and starts-with(scPath, 'xxx/yyy/zzz/')

in your XPath expression.
If you use the XPath 2.0 implementation from http://www.xqsharp.com/ then you could even use a regular expression and the matches function.